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http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html

From the release notes:

* Unicode for Telnet and IRCjr
* HTTPServ gets a built-in SNTP client for keeping the time synced.
* TCP/IP library fixes
* New keyboard code to work around a bug between Open Watcom C and VirtualBox
* Other misc fixes and upgrades

Enjoy!
Mike

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mTCP - TCP/IP apps for vintage DOS machines!
http://www.brutman.com/mTCP

> http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html
>
> From the
> release
> notes:
>
> * Unicode for Telnet and IRCjr
> * HTTPServ gets a built-in SNTP client for keeping the time synced.
> * TCP/IP library fixes
> * New keyboard code to work around a bug between Open Watcom C and
> VirtualBox
> * Other misc fixes and upgrades

No time to test or use it, but thanks man!

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> > http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html
> >
> > From the
> >
> release
> > notes:
> >
> > * Unicode for Telnet and IRCjr
> > * HTTPServ gets a built-in SNTP client for keeping the time synced.
> > * TCP/IP library fixes
> > * New keyboard code to work around a bug between Open Watcom C and
> > VirtualBox
> > * Other misc fixes and upgrades
>
> No time to test or use it, but thanks man!

It will be there when you need it, just like this forum. :)

Danke,
Mike

mTCP NetDrive is available (2023-12-10)

NetDrive is a DOS device driver that allows you to access a remote disk image hosted by another machine as though it was a local device with an assigned drive letter. The remote disk image can be a floppy disk image or a hard drive image.


See:

http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_NetDrive.html

> mTCP NetDrive is available (2023-12-10)
>
> NetDrive is a DOS device driver that allows you to access a remote disk
> image hosted by another machine as though it was a local device...

Cool, can it also be used to make local block devices remotely accessible and is there a read-only mode to make in particular that mode less risky?

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> > mTCP NetDrive is available (2023-12-10)
> >
> > NetDrive is a DOS device driver that allows you to access a remote disk
> > image hosted by another machine as though it was a local device...
>
> Cool, can it also be used to make local block devices remotely accessible
> and is there a read-only mode to make in particular that mode less risky?

It's a network block device driver for DOS.

* Mount standard disk images (floppy or HD) from a server (Linux or Windows at the moment)
* There is a read-only mode supported either on the server side (mark the image file read-only) or the client side (use a command line option).
* It uses UDP so it's routable - you can attach disk images on remote servers.
* No special permissions required on Unix or Windows.


-Mike

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mTCP - TCP/IP apps for vintage DOS machines!
http://www.brutman.com/mTCP

The server runs on Windows 10-11 or Linux (not DOS).

I've made a few changes to the server side that might be interesting:

* A Linux on ARM server is available now. (The code ran unmodified; I didn't have any little-endian/big-endian screw-ups.)
* A "headless" mode is available for people who don't want to use the text UI on the server.


I'm still doing a lot of refactoring and improving the code so I'm not releasing source code yet. I'd also like to get more feedback from people who have used it before I do release it.

2024-10-20: A new mTCP is available

This version (2024-10-20) allows the original mTCP programs to work at the same time mTCP NetDrive is active. No more having to choose! There are also some smaller improvements a few bug fixes.

The mTCP NetDrive programs are also now included in mTCP. (The mTCP NetDrive servers are still in a separate download.)

See:

http://brutmanlabs.org/mTCP/

Beautiful

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